More of my knitting

Knit, purl, stockinette, reverse stockinette, cast off, bind...k2tog, p2tog, yo, pwise - it's not Arabic, although sometimes it feels like it - it's knitting. If I understand the pattern, if I can translate the k2tog into knit two stitched together, then find it relaxing to knit...most of the time. When I make a mistake and realise 10 rows later, when I try to work backwards and cancel the worked rows, and end up making a big, fat, horrible mess then knitting makes me angry...but as of late I have been doing a bit of relaxing knitting.

You may recall that I am knitting the baby a jumper. Thanks to bel fidanzato's mums help, we have finished the back and I am onto the front! This is how it looks so far:

If you look at my other post, you'll see that the back is all green. I am making the front and the sleeves two toned - not to be all fancy, but because I obviously did not think of the quantity of wool I would need when I began to knit. I bought 1 ball of this lovely greenish wool in Scotland and assumed it would be big enough to knit a jumper....but it's not so bel fidanzato's mum taught me to work with two colours and I am pleased with how it's coming along.

I also made the baby some play woolen cubes the other. When my twin told me 8 months ago that she was pregnant, not only did I want to start trying for a baby of my own, I decided to hand make it something special. This was when I actually restarted to knit. At that stage bel fidanzato's mum tried to teach me how to knit booties, but it was just too complicated for me. I was making enough mistakes with the plain old knit stich, so I decided to knit a blanket by having small squares of different colours. The blanket took me forever, the squares were all different shapes, they were wonky, full of mistakes and holes when I had dropped stiches and was not at all special, but rather quite crude. I couldn't possibly give it to my twin as a gift as she surely would not use it....and if she was kind enough to use it, she'd probaly have to tell friends that a child had made it!

So I kept the blanket, but could not throw it away after all the time I'd wasted not really perfecting my knitting skills. I then found out I was pregnant, and as my pregnancy progressed my ability to knit progressed too. The other week I was searching the internet for hand made toys and came across a simple cloth cube, and thought - why not take my blanket apart and make some woolen cubes! Don't look too close as you can see they are wonky, but baby isn't going to care. They are very soft which is the most important thing. I sewed A B C D on one cube and am not sure if I'll sew letters, numbers or maybe shapes on the other two, or if I'll leave them blank.